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Jackass alert # 7
It appears a newly announced meeting has been scheduled for Wisconsin dairy farmers, with Wisconsin, Department of Agriculture ,Trade and Consumer Protection” also known as DATCP.
I have this odd feeling that DATCP actually stands for “Department of Agricultural Terrorists, Corruption and Politics”; but that’s just what I think. I could be totally wrong.
While Wisconsin officials grant themselves unconstitutional powers, violate religious beliefs, and begin the process in earnest of relieving small and independent family farmers not only of their land, but also their right to live on that land un-assaulted by an unelected bureaucracy that has long since exceeded its lawful boundaries, the state legislature and governor turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to those who are under attack. I guess this should be expected; after all it is they who set this monster loose.
It is alleged that during the upcoming meeting with the actual dairy farmers whose livelihoods are being threatened by a rogue government bureaucracy, every attempt will be made to paint them as ex-hippie’s. Commies, Pinko’s. (Stop! I’m so scared!!)
I have no doubt there will be claims of an “unholy alliance” between dairy farmers who are liberals, and those who are conservatives. (Yeah! Bring on the devil..that’ll fixem’)
There will, I’m sure, be references to them being “fringe groups”; dairy farming anarchists! A few fringe loonies who want to distribute the milk to those who don’t have cows and don’t deserve the milk.. (Have I forgotten anything?)
Oh! Maybe even reports of using dairy cows as shields against swat team raids perpetrated by the enforcement arm of the Department of Agricultural Terrorists on behalf of the state of Wisconsin i.e., (politicians who sold the state off for a few sheckles).
While what is supposed to be the elected government of the state of Wisconsin pretends it doesn’t know any of this is going on; those same fine folks who took that bribe money….I mean cooperative agreement funding, and sold out the farmers and ranchers in the state sit and twiddle their thumbs; won’t answer their phones or respond to written requests for answers to legitimate questions. While they feign ignorance, families are being displaced, businesses ruined and corporations are elevated to near god-like status.
No matter how this meeting turns out, the dairy farmers will be painted by mainstream media as fringe, loony, commie, ex-hippie, unholy anarchists that used sacred cows to shield themselves from the Gestapo that is now the Wisconsin DATCP.
The only thing worse than this scenario is the unmitigated arrogance, the dictatorial position and the unlawful actions of an unelected bureaucracy doing the dirty work for a state government populated by individuals who it would appear have neither morals or ethics or any sense of decency.
The idea that these kinds of things could be happening in America and not one judge, or attorney….not one official who swore an oath to the people of the state has stood up against this land grab for the benefit of illegal trade agreements, harmonization agreements and for the sole benefit of corporations, is a disgrace.
Thanks Monica. I know I talk fast and try not to, but there is so much to know. Hopefully, I will be on Derry’s show again soon.
Marti
Oh Marti! I heard you again on the Derry Browfield show. Thank you for all the work you do on telling the American people how our milk is being compromised. It is frightening how Monsanto and the USDA are destroying our food supply.
With the demise of our food supply, you know we will all be in the hands of the government to stay alive.
Food, it will slowly become our bartering system to stay alive, that is, if the chemicals in our food supply do not kill us first.
God Bless..
[...] Now here’s Marti Oakley’s take on the Wisconsin raw milk scene, again excerpted from the PPJ Gazette: [...]
Oops, I meant to put the above comment under the Scott Trautman article because that was where Organic Valley was mentioned. Oops!
Good luck, remaining Wisconsin family dairy farms, good luck.
What the hell, I might as well comment: I once wanted to live in Wisconsin and be a dairy farmer there. Now I see it is the only worse thing I could have done than remain in Minnesota and be a small family dairy farmer here.
I see you mentioned Organic Valley. I used to sell milk there, until they wiped me out. They started out by sending a big truck with illegal tires to pick up milk in winter, and when the truck, with those bald tires, had difficulty in my yard, they blamed me. I put up with the abuse because the ‘organic premium’ for milk was so necessary for our survival as a farm. Then they went with semi-trucks which do not fit in a small farmyard. Everything always had to be clear, no room for anything but the big semi and its precious (to them) oversized payload. Talk about a major hassle! Even a 1″ snowfall bogged them down and of course, who did they (Organic Valley) blame? They blamed me. In winter, I had to be sure I was around every day the scheduled pick-up was due. And did they come on time? No, sometimes the truck came way way late, even after midnight. And of course, it was my responsibility and duty, should he get stuck. I never ever had problems all the years we had the modest-sized, dual axle haulers during the eighties and nineties…they even broke a path through deep snowfall some early mornings. Not a problem!
Finally, one day in January ’08. my waterline to the barn froze. That line had been in for 25+ years, with never a problem. But you see the heavy semis tracked right over the line and, being on a grade (I have a hilly farm, ideal for pasture and small-scale dairy farming), this mighty unbaffled load of milk and the truck wheels, would spin and slosh the milk on a regular basis, compacting the soil and driving the frost down. With no water that winter, I even lost my permit to sell milk. Would Organic Valley pay? For damages? No!!! They trashed me, saying they had no responsibility, and broke my contract with them. Sure I got the 6 months departure payment, as per the contract, but nothing for the damages and the emotional overload work and stress of dealing with it all. And now I have nothing, the cows are gone. Sold for slaughter.
Incidentally, we’ve suffered through two horrible drought years out of three, I couldn’t afford any organic ground feed and so my cows were barely milking when they used up my contract.
I was totally mistreated and abused by those people!
This is a shameful world that does this to decent people trying to make a living while caring and partnering with the earth.
I am still checking with lawyers; if anyone knows of a good one, a good firm that would represent me fair and square, pro bono, please contact me at: nedlud2@hotmail.com